While his brothers Federico and
Adolfo took up arms to support the Cuban cause,
Emilio Fernández Cavada rallied support for
the independence efforts from Philadelphia. He was
an active fundraiser and information relay from
his brothers to exiled strategists. His son Emilio
was a doctor and Lieutenant Colonel in the Cuban
army during the island’s War of Independence
(1895-1898).
Letter from Miguel de Aldama,
New York, to Emilio Fernández Cavada, Philadelphia,
January 4, 1869
1 item (2 p.)
This
letter from Miguel de Aldama, a leader of the Cuban
Revolutionary Party in the United States, refers
to arms being delivered to Cuba, including 2,000
guns, 50 Remingtons, two and a half tons of gunpowder,
700,000 cartridges, and one million explosives.
